Improved folding cradle



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH A. LATHAM AND GEORGE] W. TILESTON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTI- CUT, ASSIGNORS TO GEORGE W. TILESTON.

IMPaovl-:D FOLDING CRADLE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,94 7, dated August 23, 1864.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOSEPH A. LATHAM and GEORGE W. TILEsToN, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of, Connecticut, have invented a new and useful lmprovement in Folding Cradles and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference -marked thereon, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, au end view open; Fig. 2, a side view, and in Fig. 3 an end View folded or closed.

Our invention consists in constructing` each end of a cradle from two pieces of wood or other material crossing each other and pivoted togetheig'their two lower extremities attached to a rocker, so that the Whole may be folded together into a compact form or opened at pleasure Without the necessity of other fastening than :its non-peculiar construction affords.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustra-te our invention, A B are two curved pieces of wood or other suitable material, halved together and pivoted at a. The lower eX- tremities of the said two pieces form the legs andare attached, the one, A, by a pivot, c, to and near the lower edge of a rocker, G, the other by asimilar pivot, fi, resting in a slot, s, near the upper edge of the said rocker, and

the said slot extending toward the pivot c, and ot' such width that the pivot t' will move freely therein. This completes one end of our cradle.

lThe other end is constructed in like manner,

and the two are connected by ruudles d or otherwise, which form the body of the cradle, into which the bedding` and child are placed in the usual manner.

When not in use, or when it is desirable to fold or remove the cradle, take lnld of the two upper rundles, d, draw them together, as in Fig. 3, in which operation the pivot 't' onthe leg B slides through the slot s and turns the rocker up from the position in Fig. l tothat in Fig. 3; or, to open the cradle, reverse the operation. Thus we produce a cheap,durable, and ornamental folding cradle.

If desirable, the ends may be closed by strips of webbing or like flexible material attached to the upper ends of the cross pieces A and B.

Having fully described our invention, we claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the legs A B with rocker O, when constructed and arranged to fold substantiallyk in the manner described.

JOSEPH A. LATHAM. GEORGE W. TILESTON.

Witnesses:

J oHN E. EARL, RUFUs SANFORD. 

